Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle Quotes
I have lived one hundred years; and I die with the consolation of never having thrown the slightest ridicule upon the smallest virtue.Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle
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Show me a smile, and I'll show you one back.
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Why is Iraq so easy to harm and so hard to help?
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We are going as fast as we can as soon as we can. We're in a race against time, until we run out of money.
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In this vast country of ours, people profess different religions, speak different languages, dress differently and observe different customs; but we are one nation; the history of our struggle for independence and our faith in our future development are our common bonds.
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Methinks I am like a man, who having struck on many shoals, and having narrowly escap'd shipwreck in passing a small frith, has yet the temerity to put out to sea in the same leaky weather-beaten vessel, and even carries his ambition so far as to think of compassing the globe under these disadvantageous circumstances.
David Hume -
The most important single thing about string theory is that it's a highly mathematical theory, and the mathematics holds together in a very tight and consistent way. It contains in its basic structure both quantum mechanics and the theory of gravity. That's big news.
Leonard Susskind -
When you put relative and absolute truth together and they become one unit, it becomes possible to make things workable. You are not too much on the side of absolute truth, or you would become too theoretical. You are not too much on the side of relative truth, or you would become too precise. When you put them together, you realize that there is no problem.
Chogyam Trungpa -
None love to speak so much, when the mood of speaking comes, as they who are naturally taciturn.
Henry Ward Beecher -
The opposite of ‘open’ isn’t closed. The opposite of open is broken.
John Wilbanks -
He has had to make a few adjustments. He sacrifices himself for the team.
Vanderlei Luxemburgo
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Actors tend to get in their own way, a lot. A lot of times you will do things that will screw up your audition process. I was very bad at auditioning, and I always went in to it saying ‘God I hope I don’t screw this up.’ But at the same time, the directors are saying, ‘God, I hope this person is the savior.’ You have to remember is that the worst thing that could happen is you don’t get the job you don’t already have.
George Clooney -
The beginning of every war is like opening the door into a dark room. One never knows what is hidden in the darkness.
Adolf Hitler -
Prudence as well as Moral Virtue determines the complete performance of a man's proper function: Virtue ensures the rightness of the end we aim at, Prudence ensures the rightness of the means we adopt to gain that end.
Aristotle -
The proof of liberal virtue is generousity with other people's money.
George Will -
I have lived one hundred years; and I die with the consolation of never having thrown the slightest ridicule upon the smallest virtue.
Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle